pyramidal bone

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   a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones

   Synonymstriquetraltriquetral boneos triquetrumcuneiform bone

   Broadercarpal bone

Questions about pyramidal bone

What does pyramidal bone mean?

pyramidal bone means "a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones".

What is another word for pyramidal bone?

Close synonyms include triquetral, triquetral bone, os triquetrum, cuneiform bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pyramidal bone a common word?

pyramidal bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.